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Emotional suppression: physiology, self-report, and expressive behavior

J J Gross1, R W Levenson

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley 94720.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
|June 1, 1993
PubMed
Summary

Emotional suppression reduces outward emotional expression but creates mixed physiological responses, including increased sympathetic nervous system activity. Subjective emotional experience remains unaffected by this emotion regulation strategy.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Affective Science

Background:

  • Emotional suppression is a key emotion regulation strategy.
  • Defined as conscious inhibition of emotional expression during arousal.
  • Understanding its impact on behavior, physiology, and subjective experience is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effects of emotional suppression.
  • To analyze behavioral, physiological, and subjective responses during suppression.
  • To determine if sex influences suppression outcomes.

Main Methods:

  • Participants (43 men, 42 women) watched a disgust-eliciting film.
  • Two conditions: no suppression vs. suppression (masking emotions).
  • Behavioral, physiological (cardiovascular, electrodermal), and subjective responses were recorded.

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Main Results:

  • Emotional suppression significantly reduced expressive behavior.
  • Physiological responses showed a mixed pattern: decreased somatic activity and heart rate, increased blinking, and elevated sympathetic nervous system activity.
  • Subjective emotional experience was not altered by suppression.

Conclusions:

  • Emotional suppression effectively masks outward emotional expression.
  • It induces a complex physiological state with both decreased and increased autonomic activity.
  • Suppression does not alter the subjective feeling of emotion and shows no sex differences.